WILL THE REAL THEORY OF EVOLUTION STAND UP?
The terms "evolution", "evolutionary theory", "theory of evolution" are loosely
used in the media and in texts and in lectures and speeches. But what is the reference?
Below I show that at least 11 references have been used historically for these terms, and more should be used.
- E1: Darwin-Wallace Evolution, with inheritance by a genetic factor in the blood. (Aritotlean belief that sperm is blood.) However, by diffusion any recesssive genetic factors would be lost, never to reappear after a generation or two, as actually happens.
- E2: Darwin-Wallace Evolution with Mendelian inheritance by discrete factors secreted in
sex cells -- but without any way of showing how this condition becomes stable.
- E3: Darwin-Wallace Evolution with Mendelian genetics and stability explained by
Hardy-Weinberg Law of Population Equilibrium. (Stability after one generation in gene pool.) But cannot explain "blood types", i.e., classification of red blood cells.
- E4: Darwin-Wallace Evolution; Mendelian genetics and Non-Mendelian genetics
(allowing for "blood type"); Hardy-Weinberg Equlibrium. (But no allowance for "genetic
drift.)
- E5: Darwin-Wallace Evolution; Mendelian genetics and Non-Mendelian genetics
(allowing for "blood type"); Hardy-Weinberg Equlibrium; Minor genetic drift (Fisher's allowance).
- E6: Darwin-Wallace Evolution; Mendelian genetics and Non-Mendelian genetics
; Hardy-Weinberg Equlibrium; Medium genetic drift (Sewall-Wright's allowance).
- E7: Neoclassic Darwin-Wallace selection (Bryan Clarke's interpretation that polymorphisms are more common that classically thought but countenanced by H-W Law); Mendelian genetics and Non-Mendelian genetics; Hardy-Weinberg Equlibrium; Medium genetic drift.
- E8: Darwinian-nonDarwinian selection; Mendelian-nonMendelian genetics; Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium; Major genetic drift.
- E9: Darwinian-nonDarwinian selection (Ohta Spectrum); Mendelian-nonMendelian genetics; Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium; Major genetic drift.
- E10: Darwinian-nonDarwinian selection, with Eldredge-Gould Punctuated Evolution; Mendelian-nonMendelian genetics (Ohta spectrum); Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium; Major genetic drift.
- E11: Darwinian-nonDarwinian selection (Ohta), with Eldredge-Gould Punctuated Evolution; Mendelian-nonMendelian genetics, with DNA coding; Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium; Major genetic drift.
This list overlooks the fact that its "randomness" uses a probability theory based upon
set-theory and combinatorics which respect only type (a.k.a kind) but not order
(a.k.a. degree) -- o-probability. Yet the documented evidence of evolution involves more of order than of type. Probability measure, in general, and within the Hardy-Weinberg Law, is feasible, but ignored. Consideration of this would begin at the level of E2. Hence, a possible extrapolation is sketched as follows:
- E12 o-probability at level E2.
- E13 o-probability at level E3.
- E14 o-probability at level E4.
- E15 o-probability at level E5.
- E16 o-probability at level E6.
- E17 o-probability at level E7.
- E18 o-probability at level E8.
- E10 o-probability at level E9.
- E20 o-probability at level E10.
- E21 o-probability at level E11.
- E22 o-probability at level E12.
(If you can correct or amend or extend this list, be my guest.)
Problem: When "evolution" is used, which of these is its reference?